Blog two of three on corona virus in Tibet, China and worldwide CORONA VIRUS CONTRADICTIONS The corona virus crisis has revealed that China, at the highest level, is dangerously conflicted by its own contradictions and categories. On one hand, China wants to be seen as modern, scientific, a leader in rational planning and efficient execution […]
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ENTREPRENEURIAL TIBETANS, MAGIC MUSHROOMS
Anyone for Tibetan matsutake? Tibet’s famous yartsa gunbu caterpillar fungus are bought and sold dry, with a long shelf life, suitable for distant points of sale; while matsutake are much more perishable, requiring a cold chain from picker to packer to plate. Such is the demand for matsutake, songrong 松茸, that a cold chain has […]
CONFLATING CORONA VIRUS CAUSE AND CURE When a new disease appears and spreads fast, fear and confusion proliferate even faster. What to do, when the new corona virus is able to manifest anywhere and everywhere? A first step is for those who may be able to help to keep level-headed, and not yield to the […]
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TIBET 2020
What will happen in Tibet in 2020? The year 2020 is set to be big for China’s long campaign to inextricably integrate Tibet, and assimilate the Tibetan nation into a single Chinese zhonghua identity. After decades of massive investment in infrastructure/superstructure, the economic integration is at last making Tibet accessible to the Chinese industries of […]
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Glaciers, nomads: blaming the victims
Blog two of two on climate change , glaciers, rivers and China’s ecological civilisation #gabriellafitte TIBETAN PERMAFROST, RAIN AND SNOW In Tibet, to the benefit of downstream China, runoff increase is due not only to faster glacier melt but also to today’s higher rainfall and rising lake levels, reversing a drying trend that has lasted […]
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Emergent climate crisis in Tibet
TIBET, THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY AND CHINA’S SECRET DIVIDEND Blog one of two on climate change , glaciers, rivers and China’s ecological civilisation #gabriellafitte When 11,000 scientists world wide issue a warning that collectively we face “untold suffering due to the climate crisis”, yet the world’s governments response is totally inadequate, we pay attention, for a […]
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GANG RINPOCHE
Blog one of four on the Chinese film industry in Tibet #gabriellafitte Gang Rinpoche is a story of a farming/herding family, their everyday piety, the routines of taking out the yaks to graze, of going to the woodlands to gather firewood, cut to length and split, loaded onto pack yaks, to be stacked near the […]
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CLIMBING, FALLING, FAILING
blog two of four on movies filmed in Tibet #gabriellafitte For a while, Gang Rinpoche/Paths of the Soul was a surprise hit with Chinese audiences, doing better than Hollywood megamovie Transformers, released at the same time. Media speculated why. ANATOMY OF A FAILURE: GANG RINPOCHE RISES WITHOUT A TRACE Throughout Gang Ripoche the director […]
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Once Upon a Time in the West of Tibet
Blog three of four on the Chinese film industry in Tibet #gabriellafitte THE LAND OF TIBET IS THE MOST EXPRESSIVE CHARACTER YOU SEE Chinese movie directors increasingly make Tibet the set. It helps a lot if you film in Tibet, and if the landscapes and people of Tibet do much of the work of carrying […]
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Censorship and Genre Moviews
Is Tibet a genre in its own right? Blog four of four on the Chinese film industry in Tibet: this is a coda. #gabriellafitte Movie directors in China have a hard time. Directors anywhere must juggle finance, script, casting, shifts in public taste, and the years it usually takes between acquiring rights and hitting the […]